TWO JIZHOU BLACK GLAZED SLIP DECORATED BOWLS


Southern Song/Yuan dynastyEach with flared sides, covered inside and out with a brownish-black glaze ending irregularly above the foot, one with an exposed buff body, the interior freely painted with an abstract floral spray, the other with an exposed gray body, the interior with a calligraphic splash. 4 1/2in (11.5cm) diameter, the larger
|南宋/元 吉州窰黑釉花卉纹盞兩件Similar examples dated to the Southern Song to Yuan periods are illustrated in Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Harvard University Art Museums, 1996, nos. 89 and 94.